Leapfactor is using the cloud to provide an enterprise-class mobility platform that will allow enterprise IT to quickly and easily get any business application or process ready to run on a mobile device securely.

Apple’s iPhone 4 sold some 1 million units on its first day, and total iPhones/iPads now top 50 million. The industry’s first iPhone/iPad Developer Conference to be held in San Diego, Sept. 27-29, 2010, will feature more than 45 technical and business sessions to show CIOs, devs and business execs how their companies can benefit from the iPhone/iPad explosion.

By 2014, more than 130 million enterprise users will tap into the cloud to obtain, run, power or manage their mobile application, according to a new report by Juniper Research. Just who’s responsible for the coming surge may surprise you.

Dexterra Inc. is powering the upgrade of an integrated mobile applications program at one of the world's largest elevator services firms. The effort provides near real-time integration with ThyssenKrupp Elevators AMS's backend Oracle CRM and ERP apps.

MobiForms 4.05 mobile development tool recently added support for linking wireless PDAs to MySQL databases.
The update now adds MySQL to other popular enterprise databases, including Oracle, Sybase, IBM DB2, SQLite, and even Open Source HSQLDB Notably, MobiForms 4.05 bundles a free copy of HSQLDB for server, standalone or mobile database applications.

During the first U.S. Based Orange Code Camp, some 250 devs received NDA-caliber updates from Symbian, Microsoft, Palm, Research in Motion among others. And, Orange received some 110 new mobile application candidates for their growing catalogue. See how Orange, one of the largest mobile carriers in Europe and Asia, is helping mobile developers bring solutions to market.

A new push is on for a smarter, less finicky Java mobile architecture -- with the goal of making it easier for Java/J2ME architects and devs to design, deploy, develop and manage mobile apps. See what in the plans from Nokia, Orange, Sony and others of the biggest names in mobile.

A new push is on by some of the biggest names in mobile to make it easier for Java/J2ME architects and devs to design, deploy, develop and manage mobile apps. See how the two latest JSRs (248 and 249), along with nearly a dozen wireless device and infrastructure providers, including Sun, are looking to chip away at Java mobile complexities.

AppForge is taking a real bite out of the high cost and high maintenance of mobile app development with an integrated development/deployment platform that brings "write-once/run anywhere" to mobile apps for PDAs, SmartPhones, Pocket PCs and a wide range of cell phones, using VB and Visual Studio.NET -- not Java. See how AppForge cuts the time and hassle of building, deploying and managing mobile apps.

AppForge is taking a real bite out of the high cost and high maintenance of mobile app development with an integrated development/deployment platform that brings "write-once/run anywhere" to PDAs, SmartPhones, Pocket PCs and many cell phones. See how AppForge uses VB and Visual Studio.NET -- not Java, to cut the time and hassle of building, deploying and managing mobile apps.